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A Soyuz takes shape in French Guiana for the next dual Galileo satellite launchKourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 10, 2012 The launcher for Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from the Spaceport in French Guiana is completing its initial checkout for a flight in the second half of 2012, which will carry another two spacecraft for Europe's Galileo satellite navigation constellation. During activity at the Spaceport's Soyuz Launcher Integration Building - known by its Russian "MIK" designation - the vehicle's four first-stage strap-on boosters have been mated with the Block A core second stage, followed by integration of t ... read more |
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  NASA Conducts Tests on Orion Service Module Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are testing parts of the Orion service module to ensure the spacecraft can withstand the harsh realities of deep space missions. To date, Marshall ha ... more | .. |
  Curtiss-Wright Controls Awarded Contract By Alenia Aermacchi Curtiss-Wright Controls has announced that it has received a contract from Alenia Aermacchi S.p.A. to supply rugged data acquisition subsystems for use in the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) ... more | .. |
  S. Korea to urge N. Korea to stop GPS jamming South Korea said Wednesday it would send formal complaints to North Korea and to UN agencies, urging Pyongyang to stop sending GPS jamming signals that have affected hundreds of civilian flights. ... more | .. |
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 TDRS-4 Mission Complete; Spacecraft Retired From Active Service The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 4 (TDRS-4) recently completed almost 23 years of operations support and successfully completed end-of-mission de-orbit and decommissioning activities. TDRS-4's ... more | .. |
 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Propulsion Orbits Critical Communications Satellite for US Military Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne upperstage propulsion successfully orbited the second in a series of Advanced Extremely High-Frequency (AEHF) communications satellites for the U.S. military once again ... more | .. |
  United Launch Alliance IAMAW Employees Ratify New Contract United Launch Alliance has been notified that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) representing its workforce at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Decatur, ... more | .. |
 KIT Researchers Succeed in Realizing a New Material Class A research team lead by Professor Martin Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has succeeded in realizing a new material class through the manufacturing of a stable crystalline meta ... more |
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MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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 Homing in on supernova origins Type Ia supernovae are important stellar phenomena, used to measure the expansion of the universe. But astronomers know embarrassingly little about the stars they come from and how the explosions ha ... more | .. |
  US military to pack more BlackBerry smartphones Research In Motion (RIM) on Wednesday announced that the US Department of Defense staff and partners have been given the go-ahead to use more of the Canadian firm's BlackBerry OS 7 smartphones. ... more | .. |
  K-MAX Unmanned Aerial Cargo Hauler Exceeds Million-Pound Milestone Two unmanned K-MAX helicopters have delivered more than one million pounds in less than four months in support of the U.S. Marine Corps in Afghanistan and will remain in theater until September on a ... more | .. |
 USAF between F-22 and a hard place The wrap-up of the F-22 Raptor production in the US may mark the beginning of its military carrier. In fact, many experts believe that the redeployment of these stealthy air dominance fighters to th ... more |
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  China interested in Russian missile system China wants to purchase Russia's S-400 anti-aircraft missile system to replace the S-300 system, a military and technical cooperation official told reporters on May 6. China has placed an orde ... more | .. |
 Raytheon fires Excalibur from G6 self-propelled howitzer Raytheon has fired four Excalibur 155mm precision-guided artillery projectiles from the Denel-manufactured G6 self-propelled howitzer as part of a field trial demonstration. Multiple rounds of ... more | .. |
 F-35 Lightning II Flight Test Update Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II flight test program continues to make progress during the first four months of 2012. In March, the program completed 123 test flights totaling 223 flight hours, s ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin's DAGR Engages Moving Target in Apache Demonstration Lockheed Martin's Direct Attack Guided Rocket (DAGR) successfully tracked and engaged a moving target in a recent demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. "DAGR hit a moving target from 3.5 ... more |
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon
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 Boeing KC-46 Tanker Program Completes Preliminary Design Review The Boeing KC-46 Tanker program has completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) with the U.S. Air Force, a key milestone in the development of the next-generation aerial refueling tanker. The ... more | .. |
  House panel OKs $1B for Israel's missiles Amid concerns about rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, a U.S. House of Representatives defense subcommittee has approved nearly $1 billion for Israel's anti-missile defense program, the highest single appropriation for the four-system project. ... more | .. |
  Japan to take control of Fukushima operator TEPCO Japan's government will take a controlling stake in the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant under a plan ministers approved Wednesday, effectively nationalising one of the world's largest utilities. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Fix the trade deficit The U.S. Commerce Department is expected Thursday to report the deficit on international trade in goods and services was $49.5 billion in March, up from $46.0 billion a month earlier. ... more |
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  Norway opens $1B carbon capture project Norway this week opened a $1 billion carbon capture and storage demonstration facility in hopes of advancing the greenhouse gas-reducing technology. ... more | .. |
 Fed clears China's first US bank takeover The United States on Wednesday opened its banking market to ICBC, China's biggest bank, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company. ... more | .. |
  US regulators urge online 'do not track' law A top US regulator urged Congress Wednesday to enact an online privacy law that includes "do not track" mechanisms for consumers on the Internet, amid indications of a split among lawmakers. ... more | .. |
  China sees red as Ferrari damages ancient wall Chinese citizens are up in arms after a Ferrari sports car left tyre tracks atop Nanjing's ancient city wall, possibly permanently damaging the protected landmark. ... more |
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
Top Japan start-up Sakana AI touts nature-inspired tech
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 Toyota full-year profits dive, pledges recovery Japan's Toyota Motor said Wednesday net profit for the year to March fell 30.5 percent to 283.56 billion yen ($3.56 billion), hit by last year's quake-tsunami disaster and record flooding in Thailand. ... more | .. |
S. Korea, China to start-free trade talks next week South Korea will start talks next week aimed at securing a free trade agreement with China, its largest commercial partner and the world's second biggest economy, officials said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Quantum dots brighten the future of lighting With the age of the incandescent light bulb fading rapidly, the holy grail of the lighting industry is to develop a highly efficient form of solid-state lighting that produces high quality white lig ... more | .. |
  Fast, low-power, all-optical switch An optical switch developed at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) spurs the prospective integration of photonics and electronics. What, isn't electronics good enough? Well, nothing travels faster tha ... more |
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 Power generation technology based on piezoelectric nanocomposite materials developed by KAIST The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, has developed new forms of low cost, large-area nanogenerator technology using the piezoelectric c ... more | .. |
 Google self-driving car gets green light in Nevada The state of Nevada has issued a license plate giving Google's self-driving car the green light to travel along public roads. ... more | .. |
 Life-size, 3D hologram-like telepods may revolutionize videoconferencing A Queen's University researcher has created a Star Trek-like human-scale 3D videoconferencing pod that allows people in different locations to video conference as if they are standing in front of ea ... more | .. |
  Game-powered machine learning opens door to Google for music Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San Diego engineers have found that the ans ... more |
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